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Only doubtful truths need defense.

Alan Watts

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick

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